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14 October, 2021MATRIXX Software, a global provider of 5G monetisation for the communications industry, announced $50 million (€43.12 million) in growth funding from Francisco Partners, a global investment firm that specialises in partnering with technology businesses.
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11 October, 2021Hamdy Farid is the vice president of Nokia’s Business Applications unit and focuses on how communications service providers (CSPs) and enterprises can unlock the value of their network investments through secure, intelligent automation. Born in Egypt, he graduated in computer engineering from Alexandria University, and also holds a Business Degree from Ottawa University. Today he lives in Ottawa, Canada.
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01 September, 2021Operators re-invent voice and messaging for a new dawn in telecoms
The telecoms industry has a bad reputation for innovation and is seen by many to have missed out on the major new digital opportunities of the last three decades. This is broadly unfair as telecoms operators have provided the hyper-connectivity foundation that is enabling all of these services. Operators have worked within the constraints of the traditional market place, bringing ultra-robust, high-availability services to market rather than the best effort beta products of the digital age that rely on customer-led development.
More recently, alternatives to operators’ traditional core business – voice and messaging – have arrived and it's now time for the telecoms industry to reinvent these offerings for a new dawn.
Inside this issue:
'Editors' Overview and Analyst Report: George Malim says that far from fading out, voice and messaging monetisation is set for a bright new dawn as 5G, RCS, and the digital economy converge on telecoms
Interview: Jorn Vercamert explains why wholesale carriers have a new role and emphasis in the communications market as their ability to provide secure and trusted infrastructure is recognised by enterprises
Whitepaper: Application-to-peer (A2P) messaging is one area where operators continue to see steady growth but there is still greater potential to mine. This whitepaper reveals four operator strategies to improve enterprise messaging monetisation
11 August, 2021(Sponsored Feature) There’s nothing more annoying and disruptive than a robocall, and no matter what anti-spam solution you use, some robocalls always seem to get through.
In fact, unwanted voice traffic is the FCC’s top consumer complaint in the United States.
But the fight against robocalls recently hit a new milestone—June 30th was the deadline for U.S. operators to implement STIR/SHAKEN or an alternative robocall mitigation program.
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18 May, 2020Mobile operators – especially the visited operator that provides network access to inbound roamers – are struggling to monetise inbound M2M/IoT connections because of a lack of transparency, the limitations imposed by commercial agreements and the complexity that surrounds access control for roaming machines. Without transparency and control, operators are faced with competing on connectivity alone, with the inevitable result of price commoditisation and decline in market share. (more…)
06 March, 2020Bringing together separate fixed line and mobile operators under new ownership is among the most complex integrations a communications service provider (CSP) can undertake. However, for Wind Tre, it provided an opportunity not only to unify operations but to transform the business for the digital era, writes George Malim.
10 February, 2020Accenture now provides its Cyber Incident Response Service to help AXA XL’s clients respond to and recover from cyberattacks. (more…)
05 September, 2019Reports of telecoms operators enduring a lingering decline to become commoditised infrastructure providers may have been exaggerated if the results of a new survey of mobile operators’ customers can be extrapolated. For once, the survey, commissioned by Openet, presents positive news for operators. It says that customers are increasingly willing to buy digital services from operators and are looking to them for digital innovation. George Malim reports from Dublin, Ireland.
28 August, 2019Mainframe replacement is a phrase that turns the blood to ice in the veins of most telecoms IT professionals but these ambitious projects are starting to happen with greater regularity as mainframes reach their fourth – and sometimes fifth – decade of operation and the cost of operating them starts outstrip the risk associated with replacement. VanillaPlus managing editor George Malim recently interviewed Markus Tschumper, the head of general IT services at Swisscom, to learn about the communications service provider’s recent migration of traditional mainframe workloads to the cloud, running on a software defined mainframe from LzLabs.
19 July, 2019
BSS provider MDS Global has been acquired by Volaris Group, the operating group of Constellation Software, in a twelfth acquisition by the company in the Communications and Media vertical.
